ITEC 1620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Immigration Policy, Protocol Relating To The Status Of Refugees, Absorptive Capacity
15 Nov 2017
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The end of the second world war heralded important changes in canadian immigration policy and outlook that altered canada. In other words, the canadian government approved of the idea of a cultural melting pot, in which all immigrants would abandon their cultural heritage to become part of the dominant english-speaking, or french-speaking, culture. Citizenship act, which created canadian citizenship as an entity independent of. In addition to this, refugee laws also changed after ww2. The new displacement person act ushered in thousands of displaced europeans that have been living in former concentration camps throughout europe. Canadian wanted this population to fill the demand for cheap unskilled labour in mining, lumber and (cid:272)o(cid:374)st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tio(cid:374). It(cid:859)s i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t to (cid:374)ote that (cid:374)ot all displa(cid:272)ed people (cid:449)e(cid:396)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)epted. Those who were not of european descent were turned away. Anto-semitic views and xenophobic attitudes still continued pass ww2 making it difficult for undesirable populations to gain acceptance from the government.
